Tag Archives: Female Author

Thoughts: Findings, by Kathleen Jamie

Posted on 9 February 2020 by Dove

This is going to be a short one, partly because I’m implausibly still full of cold and partly because I just couldn’t think of a lot to say about this one – but not in a bad way.

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Thoughts: Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee

Posted on 1 February 2020 by Dove

Pachinko is in a genre of book that I tend not to gravitate towards but pretty much always enjoy when it finds its way into my hands – long, sprawling family saga. I don’t know why exactly I don’t seek … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: Wer Fürchtet den Tod, by Nnedi Okorafor, translated by Claudia Kern

Posted on 14 March 2019 by Dove

Right, let’s skip the apology for taking so long and just assume it at the beginning of every post, OK? OK. Another German book, but this time with a twist – it was translated FROM English INTO German! The English … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, by Shiri Eisner

Posted on 3 October 2018 by Dove

This was recommended to me by a friend, possibly on CSD (though I could easily be remembering wrong). I was a little bit intimidated and a little bit excited, as I hadn’t given myself over to reading much LGBT theory … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: East Lynne, by Mrs Henry (Ellen) Wood

Posted on 8 July 2018 by Dove

So a few years ago I read Lady Florence Bell’s At The Works, a study on Middlesbrough life in the 1800s, because it’s local to me and no one ever talks about places local to me unless they’re blaming us … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: La Nuit, by Elie Wiesel, translated by Marion Wiesel

Posted on 7 July 2018 by Dove

(It was really difficult to find Marion Wiesel’s name as the translator of this edition – Elie Wiesel mentions in his note on the text that his wife translated it but her name seems to be nowhere in the Kindle … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: The Walls Around Us, by Nova Ren Suma

Posted on 6 July 2018 by Dove

From dense and serious to pure indulgence. Nova Ren Suma is quickly becoming one of my favourite weird authors. Her Imaginary Girls was unlike any YA spec fic I’d ever read, so everything else she’d ever written went on my … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: Station Eleven, by Emily St John Mandel

Posted on 6 May 2018 by Dove

Another unlooked-for treasure, this was my treat after reading Covet. Station Eleven is beautiful, in the kind of painful way that only hack writers like me know: I wish I’d written this and now I can’t because it already exists … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: Covet, by J. R. Ward

Posted on 4 May 2018 by Dove

This is the second of the books that Spuggy brought back from the free bookshelves, and somehow turned out to be even worse than Heart of the Dragon. I know. I hardly thought it possible myself. Let’s dive in, shall … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: Born Survivors, by Wendy Holden

Posted on 2 May 2018 by Dove

I went through a sort of phase a couple of years ago where I must have felt like my TBR list wasn’t long enough, and I started asking people for recommendations. I was visiting Spuggy’s grandparents one Christmas or New … Continue reading →

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